energy savings at home

Improving your home's energy efficiency with ENERGY STAR can help to lower high energy bills, improve comfort and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Learn about the many ways to save in your home and track your progress with "My ENERGY STAR" - your new dashboard to savings.

new homes & apartments

A new home or apartment that has earned the ENERGY STAR label has undergone a process of inspections, testing, and verification to meet strict requirements set by the US EPA. ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments use significantly less energy than typical new homes and apartments while delivering better comfort, quality, and durability.

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How to Keep Your Cool When the Season Heats Up: Welcome to summer! But don’t think that the higher temperatures mean that you have to put up with higher utility bills. With help from ENERGY STAR you can keep your cool, tame those bills, and help fight climate change. The secret is to keep your cooling system from working too hard. Here are some of the best ways to keep your cool when the season heats up.

How much energy does your home use?

The average home's annual energy bill is more than $2,000

The average annual cooling and heating bill totals $875

More than 24,000 lbs. of greenhouse gases are emitted annually by the average household—About 2x as much as the average car

The ENERGY STAR Difference

Depending on where you live, you can save $115 or more annually by replacing your old heating and cooling equipment with ENERGY STAR certified equipment. Note: Assumes proper sizing and installation

If just 1 in 10 households used ENERGY STAR certified cooling and heating equipment, we would prevent annual greenhouse gas emissions of 13 billion pounds—equivalent to the emissions from 1.2 million cars

What is climate change? Climate change is a real, urgent, & global challenge. Human activities such as electricity production & transportation add signiﬁcant amounts of carbon pollution to the atmosphere. Carbon pollution, along with other greenhouse gases, is the primary cause of most of the global temperature rise over the past 50 years.